Amici,
Jorge Mario Bergoglio's birthday, December 17, (born 1936) is almost upon us, so, here's a reflection.
As
Satan gets himself enthroned at the UN Visitor's Plaza (at the UN, he's
more of a resident that a visitor!) and the Democrats try to get us in a
war with Russia over the Ukraine...
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N.B. In February 2014, the Obama administration fomented a coup d'état
in the Ukraine and re-started the Cold War. At the moment, it looks like
the Deep State is fomenting more trouble in the same area, namely, a
war with Russia. Just peachy.
Unfortunately for Western Civilization, the Church
remains under the heel of that Modernist anti-pope puppet, Jorge Mario
Bergoglio, and his merry gay cadre of perverts who join in or
encourage the moral and cultural rot, and seem only to show energy in
doing their very best to destroy the Traditional Latin Mass. As has been
manifestly evident since The Ogre's installment into his current
usurped office, the only people the Argentine Destructor doesn't like
are faithful conservative Catholics – and especially all the Traditional Catholics. Traditionis Custodes
(correctly translated as "Jailers of Tradition") is all the evidence
you need of that; but as it is, it's merely icing on the cake of
Bergoglian loathing.
Yet we have Archbishop Viganò speaking out clearly, like the Church should, on all this madness, generally called "The Great Reset'. We have Bishop Athanasius Schneider, as well. Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, is an American – one of the few –
who is worthy of the ecclesiastical office he holds. And when I say,
"one of the few", I mean that most of the bishops would correctly toe
the orthodox Catholic line were we to have an orthodox pope; when we
don't, as now, they hedge. They're the exact kind of men who sat of the
English bench of bishops when Fat 'Arry the Eighth broke with with Rome
in 1534.
We
didn't need bishops like those then, and we don't need them now.
Gutless bishops, wind-sniffers, C.S. Lewis' "Men Without Chests" are the
curse of the Church, nearly its bane. As the End closes in, some of
them might find their courage. Big deal. That happened with what they
called Recusant Bishops back in the 16th century when Queen Mary came to
power after the death of her father and her half-brother. But being
"recusant" seems historically to translate, basically, "Too damned late to prevent disaster."
The
Catholic Church's is bereft of bishops. The Vatican seems to loathe the
orthodox ones; consider how it (under JPII, supposedly a conservative)
treated the SSPX for ordaining bishops, a necessary step for the
Society's survival. Then the pressure was brought to bear on the Society
when one of those bishops, Richard Williamson, called into question the
standard party line about the Holocaust. Doing that in Germany can get
you thrown in jail, and Williamson was convicted in a German court of
being a Holocaust denier. (Many Germans seem to relish "Holocaust Guilt"
and the Jews will never let them off the hook, but the problem is the
Germans run the EU and they make everyone else in that Deep State
fraternity feel guilt about the Holocaust, too.) But all this means is
the Jews have power to sack a bishop, and few indeed are the bishops who
will mention the Jews today at all. The Jews –
citing the Church's Holocaust Guilt – has the Church in effect teaching a
new gospel; i.e., unlike in the pre-Vat2 days, when the Vatican had a
office for this, the Catholic Church today has no evangelical outreach
to Jews at all, and if one cannot be saved without Christ, which is the
basic Church teaching, all these souls are lost. Or on the other hand,
if one can be saved without Christ – something I know many rabbis believe the Church has changed its teaching on – rabbis, imams, Buddhists, you name it – then that's definitely not Christianity has it has been taught for 2,000 years.
And if this is the case, why hold back? Why not ask the learned professors at Cairo's Al-Azhar University to write up Christian doctrine?
(Al-Azar is Islam's chief theological authority and the second oldest
degree-granting higher education institution in the world –
were I to have PhDs in any discipline from both Harvard and Al-Azhar, I
could teach anything in the world to anyone anywhere!) Or why not
appoint the Dalai Llama, by all accounts a great guy, to be the next
pope? I mean, if you're going to be ecumenical, don't be half-hearted
about it! Ecumania!
So, our Catholic reality is, we of the laity and lower clergy, we have to attach ourselves to Viganò
and the few like him, before it is too late. Anyone have any personal
contact with their bishop? No? I thought not. Dioceses in the U.S. and
much of the world are too large for bishops to have ANY contact with
their flocks. A necessary Church reform would to treble or quadruple the
bishoprics in every nation, and treble or quadruple the archbishops,
then make the latter responsible for their suffragan bishops, and move
the pope up from Wojtyłan rock-star or Bergoglian fathead heresiarch
to be what a pope is supposed to be, Christ's Vicar, His ultimate
servant in the Earthly Church, the supreme court and supreme theologian
and supreme pontiff, the guy who deals with a profound issue only after
it works its way through the Church's hierarchy of authority and thus
narrowed down for one man to make his decisions on based upon Holy
Writ and Holy Tradition.
Bergoglio
has done none of that. Flashing his classic grimace (watching him
perform a Novus Ordo Mass has to be depressing!), the man casts opinions
off of his cuff whenever he has an itch: on planes, in asides to gay
activists, in tête-à-tête comments with Communist
reporters, you name it. He inserts himself into whatever he has a notion
to: international boundaries and petty politics, the glories of socialism and the evils of capitalism, Global Warming, Covid. "Bergi" even had
pagan Pachamama worship in churches in Rome! (And I read where he's
encouraging a Pachamama shrine in Argentina now.) And the world bench of prelates "grin
and bear it".
Blame John Paul II. Karol Wojtyła made the Bishop of Rome every Catholic's personal bishop,
indeed, his personal clergyman. Now we have Bergoglio, everyone's
personal heresiarch and headache.
Anyway,
on and on the sorry spectacle goes, like Caligula or Nero debasing the
job of emperor. On and on. But one is saved through participation the
Sacraments, the chief of which is the Most Holy Eucharist, the New
Covenant, the New Testament, the Transfigured Paschal Sacrifice, and for
that, we need validly ordained priests and bishops who aren't just CEOs
or feudal lords or bench warmers, but bishops. Viganò is such a one.
This Christmas season, we need to pray and sacrifice, and be prepared for whatever comes.
An Préachán
